Pros

Pro

Available on several distributions

Midori is used as a default choice for a web browser for some distributions (like Elementary OS) and it's available for easy downloading for many other distros through their official repositories.

Pro

Very fast

Midori is considerably fast. It starts up in no time and renders pages as fast as many other more well-known browsers.

Pro

Lightweight

Incredibly lightweight with very little memory consumption.

Pro

Allows using webapps as if they were desktop apps

Midori has a built-in functionality with which you can create web apps that can be launched from the desktop. For example, you can create a web app for the desktop to launch Gmail or YouTube or any other web app that you use.

Pro

Useful plugins are built-in

Some very popular and useful plugins are built-in and available out of the box. For example, there's an RSS feed reader plugin and an Adblocker built-in.

Pro

Minimal design

Pro

Open source

Built with Electron using JS & CSS.

Pro

Built in AdBlock

Pro

Built-in tracker protection

Prevents automatic loading of cookies as well.

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Cons

Con

Misbehaves with Google Web Apps

On some distributions Midori may not work very well for Google Web Apps. On openSUSE for example, Midori starts misbehaving when you are going through Google Drive's folder hierarchy.

Con

Supports insecure cipher suites

This browser supports RC4 encryption which is known to be insecure compared to other encryptions such as AES.

Con

Development stalled

There have been no recent updates. Lags other browsers in supporting modern web standards. Many distributions have replaced it with other browsers

Con

Another bloatware as firefox

It is described as a lightweight browser but it is just a bloatware. It crashes sometimes. It is a clone of firefox which is said to be a RAM-eater.

Con

Unfamiliar UI

The UI can take a little to getting used to because it's not very conventional or similar to other browsers. For example, it uses a trashcan icon to view recently visited links.

Con

Lacks basic navigation buttons

No backward or forward buttons makes it a bit cumbersome to navigate.

Con

No MIMEtypes defined or added

Won't open or even download Microsoft Office documents.

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